Congress on Demand 2021: Surgery
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Congress on Demand 2021: Surgery
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Selected lectures from BSAVA virtual congress 2021
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Selected lectures from BSAVA virtual congress 2021
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Trauma to the urinary tract presents challenges to the clinician in stabilisation, identifying the site of injury and formulating a management plan. This session looks at some cases that the author has managed and use them to look at the investigation and management. Common causes of trauma are external injury (blunt force trauma such as road traffic injury, animal bites to the perineum, ballistic injury and so on) and also iatrogenic injury. After initial stabilisation, identifying the site of injury is important to plan treatment. Imaging studies, notably excretory urography (IVU) with conventional radiography or CT, and retrograde urethrography, are most useful in this regard and will then allow the surgeon to plan treatment, which might be conservative (placement of a catheter or stent), temporary (tube cystotomy or tube nephrostomy) or permanent (urethrostomy, ureteronephrectomy).
This lecture discusses the reduction of human errors via the establishment of continuity of care for our veterinary patients. Using the acute abdomen as a patient example, it explores the role that care plans and structured handover tools play in preventing patient errors. Communication is key to success in veterinary practice, this involves structured communication throughout all levels of the veterinary team. The acute abdomen requires knowledge and recognition of a significant number of clinical nursing and veterinary considerations that without thorough care planning and handover may go unrecognised during or after a shift change. The lecture draws on evidence from both human and veterinary literature on the importance of these multidisciplinary communication tools and discusses how the veterinary team can adapt these for use in their own clinical environments.